Crime
The two 17-year-olds are charged with several weapons charges in connection with the shooting.
Two 17-year-olds have been charged in one shooting that injured five peopleincluding an 11-year-old child, in Dorchester in the past month.
On July 10, Boston police replied to the area of 10 Greenwood St. for a report of multiple people shot, and at the scene they found five victims suffering from gunshot wounds, including an 11-year-old child. All five people suffered non-life threatening injuries and were taken to local hospitals
Boston police said officers arrested one of the teenagers on firearms charges on Saturday around 12:57 a.m. in the area of Castlegate Road. During the subsequent investigation, detectives determined the teenager was one of the suspects wanted in the July 10 shooting. He was charged with firearm, carry without license, firearm without license, carry loaded, ammunition without FID card, firearm, discharge within 500 feet of a building and five counts of assault and battery with a firearm.
The second 17-year-old was arrested around 12:15 a.m. Tuesday by members of the department’s youth violence task force in the area of 4 Derby Road in Norwood. He was arrested on a warrant out of Dorchester Juvenile Court on charges of firearms, carrying without a license, firearms without a license, carrying loaded, ammunition without an FID card, firearms, discharge within 500 feet of a building and five counts of assault and battery with a firearm.
Both teenagers were arraigned in Dorchester Juvenile Court.
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